SR 99
E450159
SR 99 is a major north–south highway running through California’s Central Valley, connecting cities such as Bakersfield, Fresno, and Sacramento.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SR 99 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4537636 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SR 99 Context triple: [California State Route 99, abbreviation, SR 99]
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A.
SR 99
SR 99 is a major north–south state highway in Washington that runs through the Seattle metropolitan area and parallels Interstate 5.
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B.
SR 91
SR 91 is a state highway designation used for specific numbered routes within a U.S. state's road network.
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C.
Interstate 94
Interstate 94 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway running from Montana to Michigan, serving key Midwestern cities such as Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Milwaukee, and Chicago.
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D.
I-290
I-290 is a major Interstate Highway in northeastern Illinois that serves as a key commuter route connecting Chicago with its western suburbs.
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E.
Interstate 294
Interstate 294 is a major toll highway in the Chicago metropolitan area that forms part of the Tri-State Tollway, carrying traffic around the city and connecting key regional routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SR 99 Target entity description: SR 99 is a major north–south highway running through California’s Central Valley, connecting cities such as Bakersfield, Fresno, and Sacramento.
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A.
SR 99
SR 99 is a major north–south state highway in Washington that runs through the Seattle metropolitan area and parallels Interstate 5.
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B.
SR 91
SR 91 is a state highway designation used for specific numbered routes within a U.S. state's road network.
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C.
Interstate 94
Interstate 94 is a major east–west U.S. Interstate Highway running from Montana to Michigan, serving key Midwestern cities such as Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Milwaukee, and Chicago.
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D.
I-290
I-290 is a major Interstate Highway in northeastern Illinois that serves as a key commuter route connecting Chicago with its western suburbs.
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E.
Interstate 294
Interstate 294 is a major toll highway in the Chicago metropolitan area that forms part of the Tri-State Tollway, carrying traffic around the city and connecting key regional routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
north–south highway
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
CA 99
ⓘ
State Route 99 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Roads in California
ⓘ
State highways in the United States ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
Bakersfield
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fresno NERFINISHED ⓘ Modesto NERFINISHED ⓘ Sacramento NERFINISHED ⓘ Stockton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| direction | north–south ⓘ |
| formerDesignation | U.S. Route 99 (in segments) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJunctionWith |
Interstate 5 (near southern and northern ends)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 80 NERFINISHED ⓘ State Route 120 NERFINISHED ⓘ State Route 41 NERFINISHED ⓘ State Route 58 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | California State Route system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | California's Central Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
Caltrans
ⓘ
surface form:
California Department of Transportation
|
| parallelTo | Interstate 5 in California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfCorridor | major freight corridor in California ⓘ |
| passesThroughCounty |
Fresno County
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kern County NERFINISHED ⓘ Madera County NERFINISHED ⓘ Merced County NERFINISHED ⓘ Sacramento County NERFINISHED ⓘ San Joaquin County NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanislaus County NERFINISHED ⓘ Tulare County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passesThroughRegion |
Sacramento Valley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San Joaquin Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed | Central Valley of California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 99 ⓘ |
| servesAs | primary north–south route for many Central Valley cities ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| terminusCity |
Bakersfield (southern terminus area)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sacramento (northern terminus area) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
agricultural transport
ⓘ
commuter traffic ⓘ long-distance travel within California ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: SR 99 Description of subject: SR 99 is a major north–south highway running through California’s Central Valley, connecting cities such as Bakersfield, Fresno, and Sacramento.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
California State Route 99